Death Finds a Way: A Janie Riley Mystery by Lorine McGinnis SchulzeJanie Riley is an avid genealogist with a habit of stumbling on to dead bodies. She and her husband head to Salt Lake City Utah to research Janie's elusive 4th great-grandmother. But her search into the past leads her to a dark secret. Can she solve the mysteries of the past and the present before disaster strikes? Available now on Amazon.com and and Amazon.ca

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Death Finds a Way: A Janie Riley Mystery
by Lorine McGinnis Schulze

Janie Riley is an avid genealogist with a habit of stumbling on to dead bodies. She and her husband head to Salt Lake City Utah to research Janie's elusive 4th great-grandmother. But her search into the past leads her to a dark secret. Can she solve the mysteries of the past and the present before disaster strikes? Available now on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca

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Dolphijn

Left the Texel 7 Sept 1637, arrived New Amsterdam 28 March 1638

New Netherland Ships Passenger Lists Project

I've started reconstructing ships' passenger lists from various source (see below for details) and will be providing these lists online as I complete them. In some cases, I've been able to reconstruct names for a ship list that has never been published before! In other cases, I've been able to add names to previously published lists. This is an Olive Tree exclusive.

This is a huge project, one I am working on alone, and I will complete it as time permits. If you would like to help Olive Tree bring such databases to the Internet for all to use FREELY, please read about the two ways you can help. With a little expenditure of time or money on your part, you can help make this project (and others) a reality.

Lorine's Research Notes With Sources: I reconstructed the names of those sailing on various ships from the following sources. Please note that not every source was used to reconstruct every ship. I have indicated which sources were used for each individual:

Abstracts from Notarial Documents in the Amsterdam Archives by Pim Nieuwenhuis published in New Netherland Connections in series Vol. 4:3,4; Vol. 5:1-3 (hereafter NNC)

Early Immigrants to New Netherland 1657-1664 from The Documentary History of New York (hereafter EINN)

On 19 April 1638 a declaration from the crew of the Dolphin was presented in New Netherland regarding the stormy passage of the vessel, and subsequent damages. The Captain had complained before sailing that his vessel leaked. It was further declared that the Captain of the vessel had not provided passengers with food for part of the voyage. [Register of Provincial Secretary 19, 23, 28 April 1638 in CHM]

William Kieft [Declaration of Jacob Stoffelsen, Gillis Petersen van der Gouw and Tymen Jansen 16 April 1639 stating "..on the 28th March 1638, that being the day on which William Kieft arrived in New Amsterdam" in CHM]